Hyantes is a library to compute neighbourhood population potential with scale control.
It is developped by the Mescal team from the Laboratoire Informatique de Grenoble, as a part of Hypercarte project.
Hypercarte project aims to develop new methods for the cartographic representation of human distributions (population density, population increase, etc.) with various smoothing functions and opportunities for time-scale animations of maps.
Hyantes provides one of the smoothing methods related to multiscalar neighbourhood density estimation. It is a
C library that takes sets of geographic data as inputs and computes a smoothed representation of this data taking account of neighbourhood's influence.